Re:Japanese railway operator to license maglev tech to US fo...
by tcas on Saturday April 12, 2014 @12:23AM
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I've clocked Acela at just below 150mph on my GPS in between Providence and Boston. As I understand it, they would like to go faster in other sections, but the track / catenary isn't able to sustain that speed on most of the journey. Still way better than flying for BOS<->NYC or NYC<->WAS. It's a shame that the ticket prices are 2x what the regional is though.
Never heard about having dedicated rails. It would be nice, since the FRC requires any train that travels on track shared by freight to be basically built like a tank, which makes them much more expensive to make an operate.
Re:Japanese railway operator to license maglev tech to US fo...
by ddrmaxgt37 on Saturday April 12, 2014 @12:15AM
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Very sad since IIRC Acela was supposed to have its own high speed rail but runs on existing track due to budget
Re:Japanese railway operator to license maglev tech to US fo...
by Brian-Puccio on Saturday April 12, 2014 @03:24PM
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> and heading south the rail bridge that runs next to the Triborough gives you a fantastic panorama of Manhattan's east side.
For anyone else interested, that's the Hell Gate Bridge[0]. It's odd, I'm in the generation that will always think of the Triborough as the Triborough, not the RFK, the same way others still think Interboro, not Jackie Robinson.
The route is just too winding for those speeds in so many places and you end up going 60MPH for much of the trip.
The best views going north are past the Connecticut river, rolling through Niantic, to New London and the small coastal villages like Mystic, and heading south the rail bridge that runs next to the Triborough gives you a fantastic panorama of Manhattan's east side.
I love the train.